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DDGD April 9, 2016

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Leadership in an amoral world
requires more pragmatism, less ideology and no sense of decency or humanity.

The only thing an amoral
leadership can accomplish is to reproduce itself. Meanwhile, the path carved by
moral leadership can have many pitfalls, but the few milestones reached along
the way make all the difference.

Real Realists are not simply
disillusioned idealists; they are self-loathing ones set on destroying the very
ideals which they once upheld as well as the very people and events that remind
them of them.

The worst conspirators are the
ones who conspire against themselves first and foremost. Yet, they are these
conspiracies against one’s own interests that often prove the most successful.
People, then, are better at conspiring against themselves than against others.

A casual observer becomes an
active participant after a certain period of in indeterminable length has
elapsed, even if they continued to refrain from action. For this reason, those
who do not want to participate in something should not observe it, not even
casually. For observation is essentially participation.

Hubris tends to fry the brains it
infects, and to silence the consciences it so gently caresses. Hubris is how
all victories end. This is why the wise avoid seeking victory, and opt for the
establishment of a new balance between their competing interests.

The Delirica

Obama disses Trump over the size of the latter's hands

Loathe
Thy Brother “Are Donald Trump and Barack Obama two examples of the same American
affliction?” I have previously made a
similar augment to the one made here by my friend Lee Smith.

For an external
observer like me, I see little difference between a man like Obama and his
Realist advisers who build a mental wall between them and others, and a man
like Donald Trump and his advisers, who want to transform this wall into a
physical reality. That’s the essence of America’s growing credibility problem
at this stage: both its left- and right- wing politicians seem equally amoral,
arrogant and irresponsibly eager to walk away from America’s responsibilities.

Personally,
however, I have long come to believe that the United States has a moral
obligation to be more than be the “world’s most powerful bystander,” asLeon Wieseltier recently put itin reference to the
issue of Syrian refugees.

Indeed, to me,
and to many around the world, the United States does have certain moral
obligations when it comes to stopping and preventing mass slaughter,
obligations that stem from her own cherished history, her own values and even
her own interests. And while there will always be people from around the world
who would blame America for acting, failing to act, or just for being there and
being so powerful, there will are also be peoples who know very well that
without America’s leadership, they may not be alive today—peoples like the
Kosovars, the Bosnians, the Kurds of northern Iraq, and many others. This list
of appreciative peoples could have included the Syrians, and could still
include many of them, no matter how begrudgingly at this late stage.

Be that as it
may, certain things need to be done because they are right in themselves, both
for humanitarian and strategic reasons, and not because they will get you
appreciation or save you from blame — little wisdom that one would have
expected a man like Barack Obama, whose very rise to power comes as a
fulfillment thereof, to understand deeply. Obama’s failure in this regard makes
him, not simply imperfect or lacking, but disappointingly flawed and
unappreciative of the very legacy that paved his path.

So yes, Syria is
clearly Obama’s fault. His failure—and the failure of his Realist
supporters—to see that and to own up to it, raises questions about
the moral underpinnings of their worldview and their moral sense.

The Deliricon

A statue of Vladdie the Cullminator found in a

little corner near Moscow’s famous Red Square

The PoorPutin:
In ancient Russian mythology, the PoorPutin is the name given to a corrupt and
cruel autocrat who fends off challenges to his authority by rewarding loyalty
and sycophancy among his immediate coterie, and masks his dark side and
impulses through frequent and well-orchestrated public shows of joviality and
bravado designed to endear him to the masses. The PoorPutin’s personality is so
strong and dominant that he is often blamed as well for the evil acts committed
by his coterie. It’s on account of this tendency that most deliriologists
believe that the majority of Russian potentates described as PoorPutins suffer
from a persecution complex, despite being the primary persecutors of their
societies. According to the famous renaissance deliriologist, Phried Umbilico,
the infamous Russian czar Vladdie the Cullminator was an “excellent example of
a traditional PoorPutin, for although he had a tendency to fuck his daughters
and eat his wives, he was generous to his friends – to a fault, in fact, as the
recently leaked Klanama Papers reveal – and popularly known for his
killer joviality.”

Not to be confused with the PurrPutin
– a genus of wildcats known to inhabit the Siberian steppes where it survives
by digging up and consuming what’s locally known as the Gulag Juice: a
dark and rich soil derived from the decaying corpses of former dissidents and
purged party leaders long buried in cold shallow graves where it is mixed with
permafrost, animal dung, dead hopes and dream, and wasted human potential.
According to Phried Umbilico, there is indeed a connection between PoorPutins
and PurrPutins, which is why many people tend to confuse them. Almost
every PoorPutin, Umbilico notes, is known to have been an avid collector
and “domesticator,” if such thing is possible, of PurrPutins.

The Klanama Papers: A
legal term used to refer to any set of documents that end up confirming what so
many of us have long suspected regarding the shitty nature of the world and its
inhabitants (Also see PoorPutin).

The Shit Shat: A sex game
that is quite popular within the ranks of the Shitty and Infamous, and is
largely believed to be the main cause behind the malodorous aroma that usually
surrounds shitlymen clubs, such as the Shitly Titly chain (Also see the Shitly
Witly).

The LeoCons: A political
movement dedicated to changing the world and achieving global peace by conning
lions and convincing them of the benefits of becoming sheep. Culling is also
employed in the case of “difficult” and “hard to convince” lions. The LeoCons
are ardent critics of the Shitealists.

The Shitealists: A
political movement dedicated to changing the world and achieving global peace
by negotiating with the lions and joining them in fucking the sheep, in the
hope that the more fucked up the sheep get the more sheepish they will become,
thus, improving the chances of peacemaking. The Shitealists are the
ideological enemies of the LeoCons.

Banadora's Box: According
to Arab mythology, Princess Banadora so loved that red sweet-sour fruit known
to us as the Tomato that she gave her very name to it. She, then, built a magic
box that can transform anything one puts in it into tomatoes, or banadoras.
Unsurprisingly, ancient peoples tried to avoid storing their precious
belongings in Banadora’s Box, except during time of drought and famine where
the Box became their main lifeline. In modern times, the term is used to refer
to bad investments, such as investing in hedge funds and buying bonds based on
securities resulting from bundling subprime mortgages, or trusting a Realist
President.

The Daily Delirynth

The Boar Trilogy – a sci-fi series set in the not-so-distant future when wild boars emerge as the dominant species on the planet. The series consist of “The Boars of Fukushima,” “The Pigs Shall Inherit the Earth” and “Call Me Porky.”

The
Exotic & Inhumane – The Never-Changing Norm:Radioactive
Boar Are Thriving And Causing Havoc Near The Fukushima Power Plant. “The animals
show no immediate signs of harm from the radiation, however samples from
Fukushima's wild boar meat has shown they contain 300 times the safe amount of
the radioactive element caesium-137… Hunters have been offered rewards to cull
the boars by local authorities. However, the animals are breeding so quickly
they can’t keep up.”

Here’s
the Real Story Behind the Indonesian Singer Irma Bule, Who Died From a Cobra
Bite. “…beyond the bizarre, sensational story, there is something sad and
sobering about Irma’s tale. ‘Irma is a portrait of an Indonesian woman who
happens to be at the lower level of society,’ Supriatma writes. ‘She fights
hard. She exploits what she can exploit to go on living.’ She certainly doesn’t
deserve to die amid a storm of lurid, tabloid headlines.”

The
Obscene, Triumphant:How
the Kremlin Manipulates Europe’s Refugee Crisis “Russian intelligence is detectable
in the huge migration wave hitting Europe. What does this mean for Western
security?”… “Not content with the actual level of crime among migrants,
Russian media outlets have taken to inventing more of it.” … “A major concern
is that the Kremlin has seeded the migrants with secret operatives who will be
activated once they reach Europe.” The Assad regimes along with Iran,
Hezbollah and the Islamic State have probably done the same.

How Noam Chomsky
Betrayed the Syrian People. “Though Chomsky and the wider left might not
appreciate this, the part they are playing in Syria’s counter-revolution is
discrediting leftism. In this way, their actions are comparable to those
“socialists” who destroyed the left for generations because of a blind loyalty
to the nightmare of Stalinism. Sadly, the conservative, orientalist, and
incoherent stance on Syria expressed by Chomsky and his supporters is
symptomatic of a leftism that has no reason to exist beyond the narrow
parameters of its own subculture.”

Assad:
Total Defiance. “Assad rejects the very basis of peace negotiations:
political transition guided by a transitional governing body negotiated by
mutual consent and exercising full executive power.”

We
don't need to take lessons in democracy from Edward Snowden. “Like so many of
today’s so-called "radicals", Snowden likes to pass judgement on the
liberal democracies (talking truth to democratically elected power) while
having precious little to say about the behaviour of its autocratic enemies.
The British people don’t need to "rise up" against David Cameron
because, unlike Edward Snowden’s benefactor, the PM leads a country which holds
genuinely democratic elections.”

Two ships passing in the night, by Brandan Reynolds

The
Inspirational Still Not News-Worthy:Female
chief in Malawi breaks up 850 child marriages and sends girls back to school.
“In an
area where girls are often married early to ease a family’s financial burden
and where one in five girls in Malawi are victims of sexual abuse, Kachindamoto
is also taking a stand against the cleansing camps where girls are routinely
sent before marriage. The sexual initiation rites that take place there are
extremely disturbing, particularly in a country where one in ten people has
HIV.”

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